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A restored Atlantic Coast Line diner is open for lunch, operated by the same caterers that service the Santa Fe Southern tourist train. In the
background is the reopened "Legal Tender" bar and restaurant, which is also a rail museum.

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This particular stretch of the Durango & Silverton is known as the “Cement Wall” with the track squeezed between the Animas River in the foreground and the immense rock cliff behind. The sun only reaches down here for a couple of hours each day. Here K28 #473 brings its mixed freight/passenger train upgrade towards the turnaround point of the day at Cascade, her big snowplow not needed on this unseasonably warm and snowless day. February 2015. Copyright 2015 by Lawrence Gross. All rights reserved.

Coming right at ya is the Shay Big 6. Clearly visible is the unusual
off-center left-side location of the boiler, which is counterbalanced by the
three cylinders and associated machinery on the right side of the
locomotive.
Cass Scenic Railroad, Cass, WV. May 2014.
Copyright 2015 by Lawrence Gross. All rights reserved.

The full moon is still clearly visible as Stock Extra 463 east pulls into
Chama from Durango.
Actually, the rails from Durango to Chama are long gone, leaving only this
stub track west of Chama as a remnant. But not a lot in this shot to say
that the year is 2014 instead of 40 or 50 years earlier.
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, Chama NM, August 2014.
Copyright 2015 by Lawrence Gross. All rights reserved.

Flashback.
Bright is certainly the word for these two Chessie System GP40’s, ready to
pull the Chessie Steam Special out of Baltimore.
A disappointing outcome for me, as you can see ex-Reading T-1 2101 in the
left distance, down for the count with a mechanical problem that morning,
forcing the diesel substitution. But was there ever a more flamboyant paint
scheme than the Chessie, with its neon colors and sleeping kitty silhouette?
October 1977.
Copyright 2015 by Lawrence Gross. All rights reserved.

A cold afternoon in Bartlett, NH. 0-6-0 CN #7470 has dropped its caboose in
the runaround track and is drilling cars for local industries in a scene
that was played out hundreds of times a day in hundreds of locations back in
the steam era.
January 2009.
Copyright 2015 by Lawrence Gross. All rights reserved.

The Canadian has arrived early into the division point of Hornepayne, ON so
#6409 cools its heels waiting for scheduled departure. Meanwhile, the
dispatcher has given the single track railroad to an intermodal train which
heads out in front of the passenger, the lead unit assisted by a Distributed
Power radio-controlled mate on the rear. Eventually, the DS tucked the
stacker into the siding down the line and we ran around it without delay.
February 2015.
Copyright 2015 by Lawrence Gross. All rights reserved.